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The Vienna samplemeisters expand their Synchron orchestral range.
Could this plug‑in be both the quickest and the best way to achieve a range of familiar vocal effects?
Great‑sounding gear with big feature sets — what’s not to like? Well, for one, user interfaces that are so obscure you forget how they work the moment you put down the manual...
Our ears are the most important tool we have, but they’re surprisingly unreliable. We explain how to interpret what they’re telling you.
These RATIO tuners take the geared tuner concept further, in an attempt to solve an issue that most players probably don’t even recognise as being a problem...
The Super Freq by Holy Island Audio is not for the subtle tone seeker, as it is wild and unruly — but in the most wonderful way!
When weighted with sand (or another suitable mass) the bag can be placed across the legs of lightweight tripod stands to make them more stable and safer...
It’s a reflection of how big the modular‑synth world has grown, in the last decade or so, that a book like this can be commercially viable.
Waves have a long‑standing relationship with celebrated rock music mixer Chris Lord‑Alge, and CLA Epic offers the user some of Chris’s favourite delay and reverb treatments.
Rating **** 4/5 Stars. While Fractured Strings is a fully paid‑up product, Broken Strings is a freely available instrument, with samples drawn from a warped‑Nyckelharp and a broken Autoharp.
Rating **** 4/5 Stars. Auddict are back with a further library that uses the PercX engine: Raw Drum Kits, aimed more at songwriter/producer types.
Rating **** 4/5 Stars. As with its predecessor, this toolkit lacks any rhythmic material, but its astonishing sounds are well worth the entry price.
Rating ***** 5/5 Stars. DEEP’s drum sample content and collections of drum pattern style sets give it a distinct musical flavour within the UJAM drum line‑up.
Black Corporation have taken a single monophonic voice from Deckard’s Dream, made a few tweaks and packaged it into Eurorack format.
This may offend certain modular enthusiasts, but I’m a big believer in restriction aiding creativity. Eurorack designers...
I don’t think I’ve ever been as pleasantly surprised by a module as much as I have with the Data Bender...
Audio examples to accompany our May 2021 review of the Warm Audio WA-87 R2 capacitor mic.
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Audio files to accompany SOS May 2021's Saturation Stratgeies workshop.
Eddie Bazil of Samplecraze explores the various ways that delay effects can be used and applies these techniques to a finished composition.